Shadow Protect IT Edition is a product that I love to use… especially for P2V (Physical to Virtual) conversions..

Benefit that I found are:

It allows you to create an image of a server, PC, notebook, etc and then push it to anything you want..PC to Notebook, server to VM, VM to server, PC to VM, etc..

I keep every image file that I make… this comes in handy after a P2V as sometimes the applications owner wants to see there system prior to the P2V.I simply get a piece of hardware, push the image, and let them have it..Also, I can mount the image file and give them access as a file share..